Commented Johnny Karam, Regional Director, Symantec Middle East and North Africa, the results of the study, said: "It is disturbing to see SMEs do not apply only simple procedures for protecting information and copied reserves in spite of being aware of the importance of this information and its role in the conduct of work , especially financial records and customer data and company information. He noted recent reports Symantec survey information to the growing proportion of virus attacks and phishing attacks targeting the UAE and Saudi Arabia, making the risks caused by these attacks is significant in our region, as shown by modern global trends in this area that SMEs have become more vulnerable to attacks and cyber crime, and because they are richer than individual users of the financial side, as they are less immunity and protection from the institutions and large corporations. "
Most SMEs buy technical solutions only when the immediate need to: study also pointed out that small and medium enterprises in Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the UAE spends no more than 10 thousand dollars a year on information technology, as most of these companies spend between one thousand to 5 thousand dollars a year. Also that 47% of companies surveyed in Egypt does not have a dedicated budget for information technology, but make decisions to buy technical solutions or technical maintenance only when the immediate need to have reached this percentage at 45% in the UAE and 39% in Saudi Arabia.
Karam commented on this by saying: "The results of the study show that a large proportion of small and medium-sized companies do not make purchase decisions for technology solutions only when forced to it, rather than determine the annual budget allocated. Which means that those decisions come to treat problems after they occur, while the allocation of annual budget and action plan for information technology will provide these companies a lot of costs, particularly since the losses associated with the loss of data or security breaches beyond the issue of loss of material up to the loss of time and damaging the reputation of the company, It is the most dangerous. "
Problems that companies face in restoring data from backups: It was pointed out 26% of respondents indicated that they did not suffer from problems in retrieving data from the backup, as they did not face the loss of their data because of problems with electric power. In Egypt, shows that the loss of data due to problems with electrical power represents the most prominent phenomenon in this area, while the inability to recover data from backups, such as the phenomenon is most prominent in Saudi Arabia and the UAE. The study showed that small and medium-sized companies do not back up the data on a regular basis, as indicated by a third of companies surveyed, only that they are backing up your data on a daily basis.
Commented Karam, commented: "problems are related to data recovery culture, low to the concept of backup, it has been shown to us through our study that most of the SMEs think that just copy the data to a CD or DVD is the best way to back up your data. If we take into account the large proportion of data growth this year, we will find that small business owners attention by the backup and restore data, in order to secure and protect their information important, such as financial records and customer data and employee data, and make them available to access them better. "
SMEs have the fears of intrusion and virus attacks: According to the study, 57% to 72% of the participating companies have considered that virus attacks are the biggest threat to them, while indicated 44% to 63% of that penetration of the outside is the threat of the most prominent . In average, 29% of companies only have confirmed that it was not exposed to any attack on their systems by viruses or malicious programs, despite these concerns the whole it has been shown that the security measures taken to address them did not exceed a range of simple solutions, which included programs to protect the Internet and automatic scanning of viruses, and protecting access to the network through the use of passwords, and firewall software firewalls and verification of the powers of the user.
Have been absent the security measures developed such as verification of the powers of the download from the Internet and encryption of sensitive data and archive information for most of the SMEs in the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Egypt, as an example, less than 60% of companies surveyed that encrypts documents that contain sensitive data. The study also showed that less than half the companies in Saudi Arabia and Egypt are based archive data rate of 49% in Saudi Arabia and 44% in Egypt, while the figure was 52% in the UAE.
Symantec tips for small and medium enterprises in the region: the development of a strategy and budget for IT: You should consider the financial implications of the case of a breach of information, or loss of data or virus attacks or malicious software. Must also consider other effects as loss of time or worse, a loss of reputation of the company. And have on small and medium-evaluate security strategies and data protection have periodically in order to make decisions more correct and knowledgeable. Dealing with technical issues "only in time of need" that could lead to spending more money than when it can be dealt with according to the strategic readiness of the advance.
Choose a reliable solutions to suit the requirements of companies: There are a lot of backup options that can be adopted by SMEs, whether these options is a software or hardware solutions, or go to work cloud computing technologies. And should be on small and medium start working on finding solutions that best suit their needs and then consider the process of classification and prioritization of the data they need to protect it through the back up. It is very important also to know where to save the data, and needs to be accessed, and the process of access to this data and then consider the adoption of backup solutions that can help protect this data.
Take action and protect the business: witness the remarkable development of electronic attacks has become more complex and focused on the targeting process, and the threats pose a real problem in the Middle East. Needs of small and medium-to assess the security situation has, and the creation of a security strategy and deployment of security solutions providing them with all the advanced intelligent protection up until after the anti-virus software and look at the same time anti-malware techniques.
Information about this study: Symantec has conducted this study for the special requirements and challenges and concerns affecting small and medium-sized companies in the region in the field of information management, protection and security. The objective of the study, which was the online staff of the owners of administrative centers developed in the medium and small companies that have from 5 to 100 employees or owners, in Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the UAE, The study included 628 companies, 200 of them in Egypt, and 205 in Saudi Arabia, and 224 in the UAE.
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